Home-Based Entrepreneurs Focus on Big Picture， Not Routine Tasks with Help from GetAVirtualAssistant.com

NEW YORK, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- In a typical day, there are more tasks than one home-based business owner can realistically do in eight or even 12 hours: bookkeeping, e-mails, phone calls, data entry, customer service. The list goes on--and it''s all in addition to the business owner''s actual, revenue-producing work. But not many home businesses can afford to hire employees to take over those tasks, much less provide office space and equipment for them.

    Now veteran entrepreneur Jeffrey A. Landers, founder of Home Office Success, Inc., has a solution: Virtual Assistants, or VAs. A VA is a subcontractor, working remotely from his or her own office, who performs specialized tasks for small business owners. Those tasks include just about anything that can be done via telephone, fax or the Internet, such as handling correspondence, bookkeeping, scheduling, database/contact management, and even copywriting and Web/graphic design. Landers''s new site, http://www.GetAVirtualAssistant.com, is a Virtual Staffing Agency connecting home-based entrepreneurs with highly skilled, certified VAs that can help them maximize their time for the business of making money.

    "If a business owner is wasting precious time doing tasks that are necessary but not revenue-producing, we can find the right VA to take over those time-sucking jobs," Landers explained. "By utilizing a Project Manager and a team concept, GetAVirtualAssistant.com allows business owners to outsource specific jobs to those VAs with the skills to handle them. This is a much better approach than trying to find one jack-of-all-trades. There are very few people out there who are good at everything." In addition, this team approach usually results in jobs getting done quicker, cheaper and more effectively than any one VA could possibly accomplish alone.

    To those struggling to justify the expense of hiring VAs, Landers offers advice based on his own experience: Do the math. If business owners spend hours every day on tasks like invoicing and databases instead of spending those same hours doing revenue-producing work, they''re actually losing money. Hiring VAs for as little as $35 per hour frees up the entrepreneur''s time to spend on profitable tasks that likely pay much more than the VA''s modest hourly rate. (If an entrepreneur''s time is worth $200 per hour, why should he or she handle routine tasks at that rate, when a VA can do so at $35-$40/hour?)

    "VAs can do the things you dislike doing or you''re not good at (should you really be doing your own bookkeeping?)," Landers said. "VAs have helped me grow my own business, and I am committed to helping other home-based entrepreneurs reap the rewards of working with VAs."

    About Jeffrey A. Landers

    Jeff Landers is a serial entrepreneur who has worked in commercial real estate and has advised small businesses for more than three decades. His company, Home Office Success, Inc., has helped thousands of home-based entrepreneurs become more professional, productive and profitable.

    Contact: Jeffrey A. Landers Home Office Success, Inc. 212-867-1888 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it http://www.GetAVirtualAssistant.com

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